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  • Clinical Trial Design
  • Comparative Effectiveness Research

Background:

  • Learning health-care systems require efficient research methods.
  • Minimal-risk randomized trials embedded in practice can facilitate system learning.
  • Cluster-randomized designs with provider-level assignments are proposed for comparative effectiveness studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the feasibility of a cluster-randomized trial design for comparative effectiveness research.
  • To assess provider adherence to assigned drug-choice strategies.
  • To determine if institutional review boards would waive patient consent for such trials.

Main Methods:

  • A cluster-randomized design assigned providers to
  • favor
  • either hydrochlorothiazide or chlorthalidone for hypertension treatment.
  • Providers retained autonomy for individual patient decisions.
  • Prescription data were aggregated to calculate provider strategy-adherence rates.

Main Results:

  • All four institutional review boards waived patient consent documentation.
  • Eighteen providers adhered to their assigned strategy for most new thiazide prescriptions (n=138).
  • Adherence was 99% for hydrochlorothiazide and 77% for chlorthalidone (up from 1% pre-study).

Conclusions:

  • Providers largely followed assigned drug-choice strategies in a comparative effectiveness study.
  • This simple trial design can enhance research participation among non-research clinicians.
  • Waiver of patient consent broadens patient and provider representation in clinical research.